11 articles tagged with “funding”.
Prentis, a new AI lab co-founded by Reid Hoffman and Mark Pincus, is reportedly in talks to raise $100M, wagering that automating routine computer tasks will overtake coding as AI's biggest use case.
AegisAI, founded by former Google security executives, has raised $36M to fight AI-driven spear phishing with AI agents that examine each message for subtle anomalies.
Atoms, a robotics company founded by Travis Kalanick, has raised $1.7 billion led by a16z, with Uber among its investors.
Yope has raised $12.3 million in seed funding to build a private social app centered on small groups of friends and family, avoiding algorithmic feeds and ads.
Google has committed $40 million in AI tokens and credits toward the Genesis Mission, an initiative focused on advancing scientific discovery.
Robotics startup Gritt has emerged from stealth with $34 million in funding, aiming to automate difficult construction work beginning with solar plants.
Venture capitalist Neil Rimer, co-founder of Index Ventures, predicts that the significant wealth AI is creating in Silicon Valley will have to be redistributed voluntarily or involuntarily.
A $400 million chip-backed loan highlights a move by early GPU financiers toward inference chips as part of the next wave of AI infrastructure financing.
Applied Computing secured a $20M Series A to develop a foundation AI model aimed at the oil, gas and petrochemical industry.
A TechCrunch piece looks at why successful, already-rich tech figures are working intensely again, motivated by AI's defining moment and the prospect of greater earnings.
Lyzr, a startup building AI agents for enterprises, said it used its own agent to conduct a $100 million fundraising round.